The Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, gave the EU an offer it could not refuse…give us a clear message on joining the EU, or else. The ‘or else’ is a move towards Russia, which is very active in the region, attempting, very successfully, to prevent more of its former satellites…
A firestorm erupted last year when the government of St. petersburg in Russia, formerly Leningrad during the Soviet Union, decided to transfer the iconic St. Isaac’s Cathedral from city hands to the Russian Orthodox Church. Citizen’s of Tsar Peter the Great’s signature city on the Baltic Sea, formerly the capital…
Russia’s space corporation, Roscosmos, has started a selection process for those who want a chance to go on the next-generation Federatsiya spacecraft to the Moon, Roscosmos First Deputy CEO Aleksandr Ivanov said in a news conference today. “The selection begins today and it will last till the end of the…
Russia said on Monday it hoped its anti-doping body RUSADA would have its suspension lifted in November, but the World Anti-Doping Agency said it still had “significant work” to do and that the road map was slipping at times. Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said Russia would “work diligently” towards a…
Begun in Tomsk a year ago, now some 30 cities took part in the ‘Awakening’ action, aimed at ‘throwing off the shackles of winter, and going towards spring’, according to Tomsk organiser Lyubov Germanova. This year some 200 people took part, including 20 children. ‘This year we did not aim…
The show to be broadcast worldwide on the web starting in July will see 30 participants, 15 of them women, ditched on a large island in the Ob River, the seventh longest in the world, chasing a 100 million rouble ($1.7 million) prize on a nine month survival mission in…
What area of the world smolders with the threat of all-out war, with soldiers on both sides dying intermittently, where all the combatants are flush with new Russian weapons, and where the world’s great Cold War powers back opposite sides? You have probably not heard of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of…
Russian Vladimir Putin made sure the world knew of the progress the Russian Federation, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, were making in Syrian peace talks with NATO member, Turkey. The press conference was a marked departure from the animosity the two leaders felt after Turkey shot down a Russian…
Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has confirmed that it hired the consultancy of Tony Podesta, the elder brother of John Podesta who chaired Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, for lobbying its interests in the United States and proactively seeking the removal of various Obama-era sanctions, the press service of the Russian institution…
Steel production in Ukraine could grind to a halt and severely impact economic growth if blockades against rail lines into rebel held territory by nationalists continue. Veterans and volunteers, tired of seeing the Ukrainian government in Kyiv providing an economic lifeline to pro-Russian separatists who are killing their brothers, sons,…